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Non Breaking Space

Anonymous
2014-06-06T14:00:02+00:00

I have three related questions on the non breaking space?  I looked in Word help and am still confused.

  1. What is a non breaking space?  I do not know what it does as opposed to a regular space inserted with the space bar.
  2. With the non printing characters displayed, what indicates the presence of this feature?
  3. I understand it is inserted with CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE but that key stroke does not appear in the Customize keystrokes list found on the Customize dialog box.  How do I add it?

Thank you for your input.

Hugh

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  1. Jay Freedman 207.6K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-06-06T16:04:21+00:00

    For completeness: The keyboard shortcut for the nonbreaking space does appear in the Customize Keyboard dialog, in the Common Symbols category:

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-06-06T14:32:09+00:00

    A non-breaking space prevents two words from separating when the end of a line is reached and the text wraps to the following line. Thus if there is insufficient space for both words on the line, both will wrap to the next line. You may for example use it to keep dates or serial numbers together on the same line.

    It is indicated by a small circle when non-printing characters are displayed e.g. between the first two words and the last two words below:

    CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE is assigned already to this option.

    There are also non-breaking hyphens which do the same thing for hyphenated words.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-26T17:07:26+00:00
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